Ken Cuccinelli

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Employees of Dominion Resources Inc., which owns Virginia's largest electric utility, are giving big to the campaign of a state lawmaker who sponsored Dominion-friendly legislation earlier this year. Campaign finance records filed Wednesday show that 21 workers at the Richmond-based energy conglomerate gave Virginia Beach Republican Sen. Frank Wagner $23,000 for his re-election campaign on June 30. It's one of the largest collective gifts by company employees to a legislative campaign in recent years, according to an Associated Press analysis of data collected by the Virginia Public Access Project. Wagner was the lead sponsor and chief advocate...

Curious about state Sen. Tommy Norment’s donations to some new GOP faces in Senate races around the state, Shad Plank found an unexpectedly active contest (at least as measured by fundraising) in the deep red District 19, based in Roanoke’s suburbs.
Long...

The Peninsula is unusual in having not one, but two (count 'em!), House districts that are actually competitive, and so Shad Plank took a look at the race for money that always precedes the race for votes.
In the Newport News district where Republican...

Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced the names of the names of the 27 people he wants to examine the state's no-parole and sentencing policies, an effort he called for last month.
The names are below, pasted from the governor's announcement. The first...

A week ago in these very pages, we wrote with great anticipation of Slide the City and how much fun it was going to be when the Settlers Landing Bridge in Hampton was morphed into an enormous water slide.
OK, so there were problems. The health department...

The Charleston shooting has shone light on the Council of Conservative Citizens, whose propaganda was cited in the apparent manifesto of the shooter.
As The Guardian was the first to note, CofCC president Earl Holt has donated to a number of...

Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has won a legal victory against a conservative political action committee he accused of duping political donors.
Federal court papers filed last week show that Cuccinelli and the Arlington-based...

Missing from this story yesterday was former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's response to all the allegations of bad lawyerin' he suffered Monday at the hands of abortion rights activists.
His political director sent over a statement this...

The state Board of Health can’t enforce new building regulations on existing abortion clinics, Attorney General Mark Herring said Monday, reversing the legal advice former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli gave the board in 2012.
Herring’s opinion was...

Images captured by high-speed license plate reader cameras can help police catch wanted suspects. They can help locate missing persons and stolen cars. They can be useful in criminal investigations.
However, a database made by compiling those images is...

RICHMOND — Since leaving elected office at the beginning of last year, former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has helped start an oyster farm, sued the National Security Administration, led a U.S. Senate-focused conservative political action committee and...

We assume television cameras will be rolling next week as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up gay marriage arguments, because Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring plans to be there.
Herring filed an amicus brief in this case, Obergefell v. H

The General Assembly's session earlier this year was marked by an, alas, all too uncommon bipartisan spirit of cooperation. That was true both inside the legislative chamber and in how Republican leaders worked with Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
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Gov. Terry McAuliffe's suggested changes to a pair of police surveillance bills have privacy advocates pushing back from both sides of the aisle.
McAuliffe narrowed the scope of state Sen. Chap Petersen's bill on police license plate readers, which can...

YORK — Anthony Bavuso was back in the York County Poquoson Circuit Court Thursday as a judge heard arguments in his most recent lawsuit against the county's Board of Supervisors.Bavuso has been in a legal battle with the county since the supervisors...

In the earliest days of the American republic, Virginia mounted the most rigorous and vocal defense of individual liberty and personal privacy. Such provisions are prominent in the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and it was Virginians who authored and...

RICHMOND — They canned his name for a health-care initiative, changed the name of his economic development fund, whacked his effort to expand pre-school — all in all, the governor had a tough time in the General Assembly this year.
But it wasn't as...

Legislation meant to force Virginia's attorney general to back state laws in federal court, which was sponsored by Peninsula Del. Brenda Pogge, narrowly failed in the state Senate Monday.
House Bill 1573 took up a long-simmering fight between the General...

Looking at the money state Senators have raised since their last elections hints at some interesting politics going on -- though much of it, confoundingly, is out around Roanoke.
And that could be a sign the Democrats are going to pushing flat out to try...

No pensionWho was the convicted ex-governor's supervisor ? The citizens of Virginia were and are. He was elected by the citizens. He was convicted by the citizens. He was paid by the citizens. The citizens with that conviction, according to statute...